Effingham County Navigator Team, Inc is a 501(c)3 Non Profit Charity

March 13, 2017Monthly support group meeting at The Learning Treehouse. 250 Goshen Rd. Rincon, GA at 6:30 p.m. Our Meetings are the second Tuesday of every month.

Free childcare is provided.​ Please RSVP, by Text or Facebook Event.

Upcoming Events

February 8 through March 29th

It’s time for Basketball Season!! It’s every Thursday evenings from 7-8 p.m, starting February 8th and ends on Thursday March 29th. We will play at the annex gym at the Board of Education located at 503 N Ash St in Springfield. There in no heat in the gym, so please make sure everyone dresses according.

Stay tuned for more upcoming Recreational activities.

*This Recreational activity is in association with Effingham County Receational Department and Effingham County Navigator Team.

All events may be subject to change due to weather or other unforeseen circumstances. Please follow us on Facebook and make sure we have your correct phone number for texts, so that we can advise you in the chance that these things happen!

News

Effingham County Hits the JackpotJosh Reddick Donates One Million Dollars for Astroturf Field

By Stephen Prudhomme

The Spirit Magazine

Clarence Morgan, executive director of the Effingham County Recreation Department, received his field of dreams earlier this month after native son and Houston Astros outfielder Josh Reddick donated one million dollars for construction of a state-of-the-art Astroturf ballfield in Effingham County.Thursday, October 19, 2017​

Josh Reddick got a timely hit against the Boston Red Sox earlier this month that scored a run and helped the Houston Astros win the game and series and move to the AL Championship game.Around the same time, the Effingham native, although some 1,000 miles away, scored big at home by donating one million dollars for the construction of a state-of-the-art ball field.The starting right fielder for the Astros, Reddick, 30, appears to have his best chance of playing in and winning the World Series during a nine-year career in which he’s played for the Red Sox, A’s, and Dodgers before signing with the Astros at the end of last season. Along with playing his usual strong defense, he had 13 home runs and 82 RBIs and batted .314, fifth highest in the American League. As of Wednesday, the Astros and Yankees were tied 2-2 in the best of seven American League Championship Series.Throughout his career, Reddick’s given back to the community where he learned to play baseball by holding yearly fundraising events and establishing a charitable foundation. Earlier this month, he outhit his earlier altruistic endeavors with the one million donation for the new ball field.The Astroturf field will be part of a 120-acre sports complex located off Hwy. 21 in Effingham County. It’s part of a $10 million first phase of development that will also include five baseball fields, two playgrounds, one of which is American Disabilities Act (ADA) certified, four covered, lighted batting cages, picnic area, concession stand, and walking path that circles around the fields. The fields will feature Musco lights, considered top of the line, and scoreboards donated by Coca-Cola. Work on the project’s first phase has been going on since 2015. Phase 1-A will be a gym with two courts and various amenities.Groundbreaking for the multipurpose turf field will take place Nov. 18. The goal is to finish the field by Feb. 15, when Reddick heads to spring training. In the meantime, Reddick will hold his annual home run derby Dec. 9 on three of the complex’s fields. The second phase calls for four baseball/softball fields, four multipurpose fields, small playground, and possible skate, dog and RV parks. No date has been set for the start of second phase construction. The total estimated cost for the project is $20 million.Clarence Morgan, executive director of the Effingham County Recreation Department, says Reddick initially pledged three quarters of a million dollars but quickly upped that amount to a million to accommodate the Navigator program and its special needs participants; Morgan is an avid supporter of the Navigator program and quickly took to a suggestion by Jan Landing of the Josh Reddick Foundation to upgrade the field for the group. Reddick was as quick with a response to the request for additional funds as he is swinging at the plate, giving Morgan the high sign by the next day.In April, Landing and Trey Saxon, president of the Josh Reddick Foundation, contacted the county with the offer to donate the money for a ball field; Morgan and Reddick, who had started his season with the Astros at that point, also exchanged several texts. The timing couldn’t have been better.With the county first coming up with the plan to develop the complex some four to five years ago to accommodate the recreational needs of a growing area, Morgan says the Effingham Board of Commissioners and the county’s recreation board were questioning where the funds would come from to build the sixth ball field. Reddick ultimately provided the answer with his timely donation."Josh loves Effingham County,” Morgan says. "So many people in his position will not do what he’s done. It’s super. He’s just like that.”Morgan recalls watching Reddick play rec ball as a youngster. He says he was a small kid who was cut from his middle school baseball team. Just like Michael Jordan, who was cut from his junior high basketball team, Reddick didn’t let the dream of a professional career end there."Josh had desire and God-given talent to hit,” Morgan says. "Then he had a growth spurt and benefited from a great coach at South Effingham High. We’re so proud of him.”

"We’d like to help them to get more public attention because of their contribution to the society which is very significant and needful on a regular basis.In this interview, we present you the ECNT, Inc., a non-profit organization with the goal to provide a better life quality to individuals with special needs through community awareness, support, resources, training & recreation. Listed activities are very demanding, but nothing can’t replace the feeling you get while looking at the children’s happy faces and making their lives better and warmer."

You can find my interview here.​Thanks to South Shore Roofing for helping spread the word of our organization.It takes a community working together to make a better world.

2015 Enmark Encourage Health Winner

Robert Espinoza will present the third lecture of the 2015 Encourage Health Series on Tuesday, August 25. Espinoza and his wife Cookie are the owners of Fleet Feet Savannah. He will present “How to Train for a 5K.” During Espinoza’s lecture, the Encourage Health grant donation will be presented to the Effingham County Navigator Team, a not-for-profit support group and recreational program for children with special needs and different abilities. The group provides recreational activities such as basketball, baseball, soccer, cornhole and bowling.

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We are so excited to announce that ECNT, Inc. has been approved for Kroger's Community Rewards Program! Please add us to your current Kroger Card and spread the word to all your friends and family too! Sign up by following this link http://krogercommunityrewards.com/, or click on the image to your left, once you're signed in, enter our NPO#, which is 44517, or enter us by name. Don't have a Kroger card? Visit Kroger customer service today. Please help us get the word out! Remember, we only get credit if you swipe you card during check out or enter alternate ID that is attached to Kroger Plus Card, so please add us to your card! Thanks for your continued support! If you need any assistance in signing up, contact us and I will walk you through it.

ECNT, Inc. now a registered Ebay Giving works Nonprofit Charity! If you buy or sell on Ebay, please use us as your supported Charity.

Free online Yale Seminars

Did you know? Yale streams free seminars on iTunesU on Autism and related disorders? It is the first undergrad course of it's kind. Class consists of weekly seminars on diagnosis and assessment, etiology and treatment of children, adolescence and adults with Autism and related disorders or socialization.

Fundraising through recycling!

Please save these items and drop them off at our monthly meetings!

We have teamed up with the Funding Factory to raise funds by recycling used ink cartridges, cell phones, laptops, and small electronics.

Items can be dropped in the designated drop box at The Learning Treehouse in Rincon, 250 Goshen Rd.

2013 Partners in Policymaking Graduate, Pauline Shaw

I am very proud to announce that all 3 of our group, Effingham County Navigator Team, members that applied for the 2014 Partners in Policymaking training were ACCEPTED.!!! I am so very proud of Ashlie Kicklighter, Angela Jackson. And Tim Forbes. As a 2013 graduate I can honestly say it is an honor to be accepted and my wish is for all 3 to graduate, come back empowered and ready to make a difference in the State of GA!

UPDATE...........

Meet our 2014 Partners in Policymaking Graduates!!Tim Forbes, Ashlie Kicklighter, and Angela Jackson.Our Group now has a total of 4 graduates!!!!!

AVA'S LAW TO BE HEARD BY SENATE NEXT WEEK! Just got GREAT NEWS from the Capital that a revised Ava's Law - Autism Insurance Reform has finally been voted out of committee and headed for the Senate floor for vote . It has been given a new Senate Bill # SB397. Would like to thank everyone who called or emailed supporting our efforts and ask that now that just contact their Senators and ask them to vote YES on SB397.

Update March 21, 2014We may have lost the battle, but we will not lose the war. I encourage everyone in our group to remember this scar on the children's lives because it is the scars that reminds you of what you have endured and give the motivation and the strength to fight even harder. We as parents of our special babies must band to gather and fix what is wrong in this State when it comes to doing the right thing for our kids. If Autism or Epilepsy can't keep us down then politics certainly can't! Pauline

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